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Original title:Calaboose
Category:Movie / Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Western
Released:1943
Director:Hal Roach Jr.
Actors:Jimmy Rogers,Noah Beery Jr.,Mary Brian
Writer:Donald Hough,Arnold Belgard
Duration:45min
Video type:Movie

Rating 4.7: Votes 607

1943 Jimmy Rogers Noah Beery Jr. Mary Brian Hal Roach Jr.

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In the second of this series of "Streamliner" westerns from Hal Roach (preceded by "Dudes Are Pretty People" and followed by "Prairie Chickens"), wandering cowboys Pidge Crosby (Noah Beery Jr.) and Jimmy (Jimmy Rogers) take a job breaking horses for Tom Pendergrast (William Henry) at the railroad corral, and the horses stampede through town when Pidge,preoccupied as usual with chasing a girl, leaves the door open on the opposite side of the railroad car Jimmy is driving the horses into. When Pidge learns that the girl, Doris Lane (Mary Brian), he is chasing has a do-gooder heart and is fond of coddling prisoners in the jail ran by her uncle, Sheriff George Lane (William B. Davidson), he gets himself thrown into jail. The plan is working good until big-city gangster Sluggsy Baker (Marc Lawrence) is also jailed, and sends for his moll Gert (Iris Adrian), who he calls "Ma", to bring his henchmen and break him out. They also take along the unwilling Pidge. The horse stampede through town,...

This film was first telecast in New York City Tuesday 28 June 1949 on WPIX (Channel 11), as part of their series of three dozen Hal Roach feature film productions, originally theatrically released between 1931 and 1943, and now being syndicated for television broadcast by Regal Television Pictures.

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Author: THOMAS

Calaboose (1943)

** (out of 4)

Hal Roach comedy was directed by the famous producer's son, Hal Roach, Jr.. Jimmy Rogers and Noah Beery, Jr. play two cowboys who ride into a small town where Beery falls in love with a girl (Mary Brian). Beery learns that the only way to get close to her is by getting arrested because the girl loves going to jail and trying to change criminals. This film runs 45-minutes and it makes good for the most part, although it's never as funny as it thinks it is. Rogers and Beery and pretty good in their roles but the screenplay doesn't allow them much. There's a subplot about gangsters who come into town but this here doesn't add anything or go anywhere. This was the second of three films in the "Streamliners" series.

Author: The Apotheoses of Lacspor

This is one of the 3 feature screen liner series that feature Jimmy Rogers and Noah Beery Jnr and directed by Hal Roach Jnr.The main features of all 3 being that they are only 5 reels long and are painfully unfunny.This was really an attempt by Hal Roach to combat the effect of the double feature,so that exhibitors could for example show 2 screen liners claim that this was a double feature programme and therefore get in maybe two or three shows more per day.However since his studio ceased production when he was enlisted in 1942 this theory was never strongly put to the test.It has to be said that the material is very thin and there are virtually no laughs to be had.So that at even 45 minutes or so it drags along.Roach made a big mistake in letting go of Laurel & Hardy and it was all downhill from there on in.

Cast overview:
	Jimmy Rogers	-	Jim
	Noah Beery Jr.	-	Pidge Crosby
	Mary Brian	-	Doris Lane
	William Henry	-	Tom Pendergrast (as Bill Henry)
	Paul Hurst	-	Bartender Ed
	Marc Lawrence	-	Sluggsy Baker
	William B. Davidson	-	Sheriff George Lane (as William Davidson)
	Jean Porter	-	Major Barabara
	Iris Adrian	-	Ma
	Sarah Edwards	-	The Colonel

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